# Cold Mountain -- Doper's thoughts (Spoilers likely) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-mountain-dopers-thoughts-spoilers-likely/225040 "2004-01-18T02:20:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-mountain-dopers-thoughts-spoilers-likely/225040/21 "2004-01-21T04:10:19Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > snip > And I loved _The English Patient_. I guess I’m the only guy I know who did. I thought I was one of the only people of either gender who liked TEP. Have you notice, though, that in every one of Minghella’s movies, the couples can never stay together? SPOILERS: In **Truly, Madly, Deeply** , He dies, His ghost comes back and eventually allows Her to move on; in TEP, She dies and then He dies later; in **The Talented Mr. Ripley** (which I also really liked), Ripley destroys the fellow he loves–Hey, Jude Law got killed twice by Minghella!–and then an enemy, and then another lover; and in CM, He dies and She survives to raise their kid. I’m curious to see if he’ll continue this trend, but it will be a while, since he takes three or four years to make a film. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-mountain-dopers-thoughts-spoilers-likely/225040/22 "2004-01-21T05:34:08Z")
so the bottom line is that **Cold Mountain** will win Best Picture deb – who hasn’t seen the movie and the likelyhood of that ever happening is slim to nil but know how the academy votes – 2world [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-mountain-dopers-thoughts-spoilers-likely/225040.md?page=1)